JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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JS Dance Party — **JS "Danger" Party** Apr 17, 2020
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Our Jeopardy-style (but don’t call it Jeopardy) game is back! This time Jerod plays the part of Alex Trabeck and Emma tries her hand at contestant-ing. Can Scott Tolinski from the Syntax podcast hang with Emma and Nick? Listen and play along!

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Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Play the game yourself: round 1

Play the game yourself: round 2

All market share stats via StatCounter

About Flock

About Opera

A random gist with the shortest valid HTML

Gary Bernhardt’s wat

Sindre Sorhus

WebGPU on Can I Use?

Prefetch on Can I Use?

WebP on Can I Use?

SVG Favicon on Can I Use?

About Knockout.js

Johnn-Five

Blitz.js

npm’s most depended on packages

PouchDB (not CouchDB)

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What's new and what's Next.js Apr 10, 2020

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Divya and Jerod welcome ZEIT founder Guillermo Rauch to the show for a deep discussion on the state of JAMstack, what’s new & exciting with Next.js, and some big picture analysis of where the industry is heading.

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Guillermo Rauch – Website, GitHub, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

What even is a micro frontend? Apr 03, 2020

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Jerod and KBall are joined by Micro Frontends in Action author Michael Geers to discuss (you guessed it) micro frontend architecture. We ask: what is the concept? How is it similar/different to micro services? Who is it best fitted for? How do you put it in practice? And much more.

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Michael Geers – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Comment on this episode for a chance to win a FREE copy of the eBook version of Micro Frontends in Action. Tell us what you think of micro frontends. Our 3 favorite comments will be selected 30 days from the date of publish for this episode.

ALSO be sure to use discount code podjsparty20 to save 40% on Manning’s entire catalog. Whether you want the print edition of Michael’s book or are interested in learning something else from their amazing library of books, we got the hook up. ✊

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Spiderman Nick Nisi — **WFH!?** Mar 27, 2020
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With most of us working from home for the first time (or for a long time), we thought it’d be a good idea to share our experiences and opinions on how to manage it. We discuss how to optimize your location, your schedule, your communications, and the rest of you life during these stressful times.

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Featuring:
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
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Listen to Go Time #123 on WFH

Chris Hiller’s pro tips for devs working from home

Jerod listens to musicforprogramming.net

and suggests the Noizio app for macOS

KBall goes for www.focusatwill.com

thgaskill in the chat suggests krisp.ai

Ever heard of brothel creepers. Brent in the chat has

For more on comms, listen to Remember, people are humans

Cal Newport’s work shutdown ritual

Suz recommends 3 books:

Deep Work by Cal Newport

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

Contact by Carl Sagan

Check out Humu’s remote nudges

Read Justin Searl’s Remote, but not alone

ESNEXT CONF is fully remote

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Redwood brings full-stack to the JAMstack Mar 20, 2020

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Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of GitHub, board member at Netlify) joins the party and brings his new, opinionated, full-stack, serverless web app framework with him. Will Redwood help usher in the future Tom predicted back in 2018? We discuss that and a whole lot more on this must-listen episode.

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Tom Preston-Werner – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

"I do, we do, you do" Mar 13, 2020

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This week we’re talking about building technical courses! From video courses to written courses, we’ll give you our tips for building an effective and memorable course.

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Jason Lengstorf – Website, GitHub, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Find Jason

Cool people we mentioned

Courses we love

Books

Miscellaneous

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Catching up with Gatsby Mar 06, 2020

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Dustin Schau joins the party to talk about the state of Gatsby and the changes and improvements to it in the last year. We talk about what Gatsby delivers to the front end and how it does it quickly with improvements to the build system. Dustin also fields our questions and talks about Gatsby Cloud and where things are going.

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Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This is JS Party! Mar 03, 2020

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We are a party-themed podcast, so FUN is at the heart of every episode. One way we keep things fun is by mixing it up and trying new things.

We play games like JS Jeopardy… (clip from episode #112)

debate hot topics like should websites work without JS… (clip from episode #87)

discuss and analyze the news… (clip from episode #94)

share wisdom we’ve collected over the years… (clip from episode #106)

interview amazing devs like John Resig and Amelia Wattenberger… and a whole lot more.

Oh, and did I mention we record the show live? You can be part of the hijinx each and every Thursday at changelog.com/live.

This is JS Party! Please listen to a recent episode that piques your interest and subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.

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Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Feross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Divya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Somebody somewhere is generating JS from Fortran Feb 28, 2020

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KBall interviews Brian Leroux in a wide-ranging discussion covering “Progressive Bundling” with native ES Modules, building infrastructure as code, and what the future of JamStack and serverless deployment might look like.

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Brian Leroux – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

All the stale things Feb 21, 2020

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Divya leads a deep discussion with Jerod, KBall, and Nick on what’s stagnating in browsers. What has remained the same in browser tech over the last 20 years that remains a pain point in working with browsers? For example - Focus in browsers hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Why is that and how do we go about making all the stale things in browser tech better?

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